RE: Re[2]: Technical Basis Documents

[rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren)]

Probably because the decimeter was not commonly used.  

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>Supervisor, Radiation Dosimetry & Records
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>Relative to the choice of "dpm/100 cm|2" versus "dpm/dm|2": keep in mind
>that this was developed 4 or 5 decades ago in a place that is still
>being pulled reluctantly, with heels dug in, kicking and screaming, into
>the SI world. 100 cm|2 was more understandable to us natives.
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>*** Reply to note of 09/16/96 12:02
>To: RADSAFE --INELMAIL RADSAFE
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>Subject: RE: Re[2]: Technical Basis Documents
>>>It remained to quantify the activity on the smear in a "smear counter"
>>>in units of "dpm", and, Eureka, we have "dpm/100 cm|2".
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>Why isn't it dpm per square decimeter?
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